Offshore news

The electrification of the platforms, located in the Norwegian North Sea, will aim to reduce CO2 and NOx emissions.

Maersk Voyager will be employed offshore Angola and Namibia for a campaign which includes the deepest water depth ever drilled offshore.

8 of the production licences are in the North Sea, 8 in the Norwegian Sea and 7 in the Barents Sea.

The firm period agreed with PetroRio for the lease and operation of the FPSO Polvo has been extended to 3Q21 (from 3Q20), with options until 3Q22.

The consent applies to the drilling and completion of two wells on the Bauge field in production licence 348.

The SK408 gas fields are part of discoveries made by SapuraOMV Upstream in a drilling campaign in 2014.

The contract is expected to commence in August 2020 and run through April 2022 with an option to extend.

The company was drilling northwest of the Balder field in the central part of the North Sea when it made the discovery of several oil and gas-bearing intervals.

Maersk Drilling has been awarded a contract for the 7th generation drillship Maersk Valiant, which will be employed by Noble Energy for a one-well campaign offshore Colombia.

Talos is the operator of Zama, located offshore Mexico, and holds a 35% working interest in Block 7 in a consortium with its partners Sierra Oil & Gas, a Wintershall DEA company, and Premier Oil plc.